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A split-leaf psalter (sometimes known as a "Dutch door" psalter) is a book of Psalms in metrical form, in which each page is cut in half at the middle, so that the top half of the pages can be turned separately from the bottom half. The top half usually contains the tunes, and the bottom half contains the words.
A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages , psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons.
Psalm 118 in the 1564 Scottish Metrical Psalter. The 1564 edition went through many changes that culminated with the 1635 version. Edited by Edward Millar, the 1635 Scottish Psalter included the very best of the psalm settings for the Sternhold and Hopkins psalms.
The Genevan Psalter, also known as the Huguenot Psalter, [1] is a 1539 metrical psalter in French created under the supervision of John Calvin for liturgical use by the Reformed churches of the city of Geneva in the sixteenth century.
Psalm 1 in 1628 printing with tune, metrical version by Thomas Sternhold. The Whole Book of Psalmes. Thomas Sternhold (1500–1549) was an English courtier and the principal author of the first English metrical version of the Psalms, originally attached to the Prayer-Book as augmented by John Hopkins.
The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly called the Bay Psalm Book, is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. It was the first book printed in British North America. [1] [2] The psalms in it are metrical translations into English.
In 1567 English composer Thomas Tallis contributed nine tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter, a collection of vernacular psalm settings intended for publication in a metrical psalter then being compiled for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker.
Psalm 118 in the 1564 Scottish Metrical Psalter. The Scottish Psalter of 1564 was the first psalter or psalm book to be published in Scotland.It was published by the Church of Scotland under the influence of John Knox as part of the Book of Common Order which was a more general directory for public worship.